Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Afghanistan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Monolake to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by New Order. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Soulsonic Force,
Juan Atkins,
Second Layer,
Fad Gadget,
Darondo,
Ten City,
Minor Threat,
New Age Steppers,
Nico,
Surgeon,
Aswad,
Carl Craig,
Arab on Radar,
Unwound,
Desert Stars,
The Velvet Underground,
The Durutti Column,
Marcia Griffiths,
Derrick Morgan,
Ronnie Foster,
L. Decosne,
June of 44,
Flipper,
Lou Reed,
Hoover,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Monochrome Set,
Popol Vuh,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sight & Sound,
The Trojans,
The Pretty Things,
Colin Newman,
Aloha Tigers,
Yaz,
Pagans,
kango's stein massive,
The Divine Comedy,
David Bowie,
The Human League,
Deepchord,
Inner City,
Mars,
Marc Almond,
Soft Cell,
Black Bananas,
Oneida,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Aural Exciters,
Fugazi,
Groovy Waters,
Lightning Bolt,
Brand Nubian,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Procol Harum,
The Fuzztones,
Peter & Gordon,
Toni Rubio,
The Leaves,
The Mojo Men,
Easy Going,
Moby Grape,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.